Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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